For the Code4Lib 2014 Conference, 9 scholarships have been sponsored to promote diversity. Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for a qualified attendee to attend the 2014 Code4Lib Conference, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from March 24 – 27, 2014. Read Full Post Here
Following a total of five successful sessions on network analysis in the historical disciplines at Sunbelt 2013 in Hamburg, we invite papers which integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) network analyses of correspondences, social movements,…
1) DIGITAL RESEARCH SERVICES FOR THE SCIENCES 2) DIGITAL RESEARCH SERVICES FOR THE HUMANITIES For additional information on Digital Services @ KSL, visit Kelvin Smith Library: Digital Services.
Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. Find More Information…
In Spring 2013, I taught LAT312K: Intermediate Latin at the University of Texas-Austin. This was the fourth and last required course in the Latin sequence at UT and focused on Vergil’sAeneid. The course functioned both as a cap to a student’s Latin experience (several of my students were graduating seniors finishing off their required courses)…
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is over, and it’s time to recap what has been done during a greatly productive summer. Not only has my project has achieved its main objectives, but as a result I was able to demonstrate the results at the École Thématique, Centre d’Étude Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France…
The Open Access Button is a browser-based tool that lets users track when they are denied access to research, then search for alternative access to the article. Each time a user encounters a paywall, he simply clicks the button in his bookmark bar, fills out an optional dialogue box, and his experience is added to…
The Thematic Survey took place to gather more significant data on digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe. There were three thematic surveys. They have been implemented in February to April 2013. At the heart of the ENUMERATE Thematic Surveys were the topics: SIZE of digital collections COST of digitisation ACCESS AND USE of digital collections…
The ACRL Literatures in English Section is working on a proposal to sponsor an ACRL publication about digital humanities and subject specialists. We are looking for approximately 10-15 chapters that examine the role of the librarian subject specialist in digital humanities. Proposal Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2013 Read full call here.
Here are some live notes from the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art symposium “American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration”. Read full report here